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Broward County Commissioner Stacy Ritter called me today and in a brief and somewhat frenzied exchange, she accused me numerous times of lying about her.
She also confirmed that she's never been to Taiwan.
And on that, I'll take my medicine. A...

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Castillo's date at Morikami Gardens was one of the highlights of her month.
?Claudia Castillo of Plantation vowed to celebrate her 30th birthday by going on 30 dates in the month of August. She made it to 29.
"I came up one short," says Castillo....

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Noland didn't trust the locks that his bosses were giving him.
?Deerfield Beach Fire Rescue Lt. Howard Noland -- husband of Deerfield Beach Mayor Peggy Noland -- has been suspended for a day without pay following an investigation into allegations ...

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Allen West
?They revere him because he says what most Republican candidates think but don't say. Yet the tea partiers and right wingers who support Allen West's bid for Congress apparently feel the need to protect him from his boldest, most contro...

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People ask, so what did you think about that Rothstein hearing? And I'm like, nothing much.
It's a sideshow. Ed Morse wants to cut in front of the line of the other victims to recoup his multimillion-dollar loss? Sure, and let's fund George "Whal...

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Chery's Facebook photo, from happier times.
?Palm Beach Atlantic University is a no-nonsense place. The private, Christian school in West Palm Beach strictly prohibits drinking and premarital sex on campus. But what happens when a God-fearing stud...

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For at least a year, the state has played a matador role with El Toro Loco.
?The Florida Division of Alcohol Beverages and Tobacco is reeling after this article in today's Palm Beach Post reported that agents overlooked evidence within their own ...

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?Laderic Brown has only been an adult for 23 months, but he already has a dozen criminal cases in Palm Beach County courts -- and that doesn't include the charges of home invasion, kidnapping, ramming a police cruiser and leading cops on a high-speed...

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?Jimmie Bo Horne, a promoter who booked acts for Deerfield Beach's city festivals over the past decade, has been contacted by a forensic auditor seeking records of how city money was handled for that event.
"Any information I provide to (the investi...

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While the Chaitgate corruption investigation rages on, Broward County Commissioner Ilene Lieberman won't be at today's commission meeting. She's gone to China.
Lieberman's office confirmed she left for Beijing yesterday as part of a delegatio...

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"I think that anybody that has anything to do with Tamarac is being linked to the Chaits, and I happen to represent Tamarac," she said.
Thank goodness Rodriguez didn't allow that B.S. to slide. He asked about her personal relationship with the Cha...

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?In the same summer that Elton John accepted an invitation -- and $1 million -- to perform at the Palm Beach wedding of Rush Limbaugh, he is refusing to entertain far more generous offers to judge the performances of those aspiring to be the next Ame...

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Smash HLS, founded by Boca Raton resident Gary Serignese, published 10 pictures of what look like severely injured--and possibly dead--monkeys he says are being held inside the industrial building.
Warning: photos after the jump could potentially be...

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?U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek had a lot of reasons to feel good about his primary win last week over Jeff Greene. Despite recent polls that showed Greene doing well, Meek trounced him with 57 percent of the vote.
But there's also something that should wo...

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?David Brady won a modest 23.3 percent of the vote in last week's primary against Allen West in the race for the Republican nomination for the 22nd Congressional District. But considering that West has raised about $4 million and that Brady spent abo...

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Tamarac City Manager Jeffrey Miller wasn't in the middle of the scandal involving dirty developers Bruce and Shawn Chait. He was at the top of the bureaucracy.
Portner's photo at Tamarac City Hall.
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But Miller said in a sw...

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Hey, with all this Glenn Beck nonsense going on, let's not forget that it's all nothing but grotesque theater. Think about this scene: Geraldo Rivera talking in a supposedly serious and sober tone about a Glenn-Palin presidential ticket. It happened....

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Paul Kent looks like a madman. It's 7:30 a.m. on a Saturday, and the world's number-one longboarder is dressed like a cross between a crack-addled aerobics instructor and the Unabomber: shirtless, tiny red shorts, black leggings, futuristic running ...